The Alchemist's Laboratory (HOMO)
Source
Heinrich Khunrath, Amphitheatrum Sapientiae Aeternae, 1595/1609
The trail
Bruno De Imaginum Compositione → the eye that sees all things in itself → Khunrath's Amphitheatre
The passage
The man is inside the cosmos. The instruments are on the table and the table is inside the universe and the universe is inside the man who is using the instruments.
Khunrath drew the laboratory as a circle with HOMO at the top. The laboratory is not a room. It is a diagram of consciousness. The instruments are not for making gold. They are for making the man who uses them.
The eye that sees all things in itself, and which is likewise in all things.
Engraving, Metropolitan Museum of Art.